Human rights are certainly in dire straights in India...when police can wantonly shoot any protester or activist on sight. There is no law or justice. The media must do a better job in highlighting these cases for it will put pressure on the govt to act.

6:44 pm September 11, 2010

SM wrote:

The courage and determination demonstrated by these people is unbelievable. Maybe we can create a NGO through which activists can route their RTI requests, That way their identity can be shielded and they can be made to feel more safer.

9:22 pm September 11, 2010

RTI Activist wrote:

Many a times, the intentions of the RTI activists are nor fair & honest. They use RTI as a means to extract money from an erring person/organization. We need to use the RTI for the benefit of community.

10:57 am September 12, 2010

captainjohann wrote:

What is the use of this article to the families of the RTI activists? some sort of Government fund should be there for the families as these RTI activists are also warriors in their own way showing courage.India willbestow padam shris and rathnas to only politicians but not our unknown soldiers who die in the frontiers or in the villages.

7:50 pm September 12, 2010

pnut wrote:

In a country where the government can't provide security to the witnesses and those seeking truth, everything else is a sham.

7:01 pm September 13, 2010

citizen wrote:

this is a shame of our country. Our government is a farce, spending crores lining their pockets on every occassion, look at the commonwealthy games. And the kill good people who are trying to make a difference. We need to do something about our government, or our situation will only worsen. If the honest citizen cannot even raise his voice,a nd question things, then we are becoming worse than a military state. Indifference is going to be the death of India.

1:56 pm October 3, 2010

RITU CHAUHAN wrote:

GUD AFTER NOON I WANT TO ASK WHERE WE CAN ASK FOR ROAD PROBLEMS THROUGHT RTI?

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